Meanings
plural posy-sniffers
- Alternative form of posy sniffer.
- Effeminate man
1 more example
"I... just... can't... stand... having some... goddamned... posy-sniffer of a main-line Philadelphia closet queen... who inherited his fucking money... and doesn't have any fucking idea of what goes into making it... trying"--and here her teeth came together and stayed there, and the expression on her face went grim and bitter again--"to tell me how to run my own fucking business."
2017, Max Edelman, Sex Swinging Foursome for the H, →ISBN - Environmentalist
Carl glared at the Greenpeace stall a few metres further along the mall. 'I wish we hadn't set up so close to the posy-sniffers.'
1992, Elizabeth Knox, Treasure, →ISBN, page 1161 more example
Beau pointed to the environmentalists and said, “Those posy-sniffers will never change— until they have no gas for their cars.”
2010, Joe Barfield, Moon Shadow, →ISBN
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posy-sniffer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/posy-sniffer
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